low-freeboard

Ships in this low-freeboard condition are easier to climb aboard and thus easier targets for pirates.

The Trafalgars were the penultimate low-freeboard battleships built for the Royal Navy.

"It's physically very demanding," Becker-Dey said about sailing the low-freeboard Europe dinghy.

One of those craft was a low-freeboard monitor used by the border guard to patrol the Amur River when it was free of ice.

She was of "three-island" construction with a forecastle, bridge house, and quarterdeck, extending to the full width of a low-freeboard hull.

Those that were directly modelled on Monitor were low-freeboard, mastless, steam-powered vessels with one or two rotating, armoured turrets.

The Royal Sovereigns had reverted to a higher freeboard after several classes of low-freeboard vessel had been constructed, the last being the Trafalgar class.

Of these, one was a low-freeboard design: the Hood, and nine were high freeboard designs: the seven Royal Sovereign and two Centurion class ships.

To low-freeboard oared vessels, the bulkier sailing ships like the carrack and the cog acted almost like floating fortresses, being difficult to board and even harder to capture.

In many respects, the turreted, low-freeboard Monitor and the broadside sailer HMS Warrior represented two opposite extremes in what an 'Ironclad' was all about.

The floating battery Duque de Tetuán was an ironclad warship, a low-freeboard vessel similar in design to a monitor, of the Spanish Navy, and was constructed during the Third Carlist War to provide coastal defense and fire support for troops ashore.